>> that's it for the turks. "viewpoint" is next with john fugelsang. we'll be back tomorrow. >> john: good evening. just when fox news was ready to change their name to the benghazi news network all benghazi all the time. the irs may have give them a new controversy that is actually pretty controversial. now the g.o.p. congress has two causes to champion, two chances to demand high ranking democraticdemocratic scalps. while they may not have the impeachment they want, they will can use anger not ideas to get out the conservative vote in in 2016. the ambassador who co-chaired the report on the benghazi attack, then we'll talk about the political absurdities with our panel of non-experts.

benghazi and the irs. they may or may not be real scandals, but they're real stories and money will be raised off of them for many months to come. this is "viewpoint." [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> good evening i'm john fugelsang. this is "viewpoint." thank you so much for joining us tonight. just when you might have thought the benghazi issue was sputtering out it looks like benghazi may be with us for many mores to come. four americans including ambassador chris stevens died when the american facility in benghazi was attacked on 9/11/2012. they found serious makes had been found in security arrangements and reported those mistakes to the state department

and congress. we'll have more on that from ambassador pickering in a moment. but in congress there is future roy over what "abc news" reported as is it revisions of the government e-mails that followed this attack. the e-mails chart an interagency process that saw references to an al-qaeda relateed group and the attack warnings removed from benghazi talking points days after the deaths. president obama did not agree when he addressed the issue today. >> they concluded that in fact, there was nothing afoul in terms of the process that is being used. suddenly three days ago this gets spun up as there is

something new to the story. there is no there, there. >> john: but on sunday california congressman darryl issa who chairs the house overidentityoversight committee said the process had forced the c.i.a. to back off its claims. >> that's manipulating the c.i.a. >> john: because the c.i.a. is so easy to push around. on friday presidential press secretary jay carney insisted the white house role had been small. >> the only edit made by the white house or the state department to those talking points generated by the c.i.a. was a change from referring to the facility that was attacked in benghazi from consulate because it was not a consulate to diplomatic post. >> john: but arizona senator john mccain wouldn't buy it. >> for the president's smoke man

to say that, well, there was only words or technical changes made in those e-mails is a flat-out untruth. i'd call it a cover-up. i would call it a coverup in the extent that there was willful removal of information which was obvious. >> john: for more, i'm very honored to welcome back to "viewpoint" thomas pickering ambassador what a pleasure it is to have you on the show. >> thank you john, it is nice to be back with you. >> thank you, and we enjoyed watching you with chairman issa. you corrected him on air letting us know that the republican majority said you weren't welcome at last week's hearing. have you been in contact with the chairman's oversight reform

yesterday. >> yes i received a letter today which i'm looking at in some detail. i think admiral mullen also received a letter. we believe we should testify as soon as that can be arrangeed and that it should be in public testimony, so the american public knows what it is that we have to say. we're looking forward to doing that and we've asked the state department on our behalf since our report has been given to the statesecretary of state already to help us to arrange those meetings. >> did anything in last week's over site cause to you reconsider any of your accountability review boards findings. >> nothing caused me to reconsider the findings, i listen with great intent to the various testimonies that were given. i was a little bit surprised by the degree of politicalization of the whole outfit, but i think

everybody else has expressed that including senator feinstein on sunday. >> indeed, they have and will continue to. the report dealt with five questions regarding the benghazi attack all of them involving security. based on your findings were the security a failure on the part of the state department or the congressional funding process or both of the above? >> i think in some ways both of the above. we pinpointed where we felt the leadership failings were in the state department at the assistant secretary and below fairly high up in the department. we also noted programs that the congress had undertaken to fund back in 1998 to deal with the nairobi bombings were not funded over the ten-year period which was the intention to do so, and we recommended they be fully funded, and we recommended sol

other funding and supported other funding that the state edit wanted to move on immediately. >> john: of course, chairman issa said he found the error incad adequate because it didn't find anyone at a high level of the state level or anybody else to a failed. you did find failure at the assistant secretary level. i take it that you don't agree with the congressman? >> no, i don't on that. i think that everybody may have their own definition of high level. his was the secretary of state. how we met with the secretary of state, why we had not quote investigated her because in fact, we had clearly and i think affirmatively felt that the decision making was a level below hers, and it was reviewed at a level belows hers. >> do you believe the state department has the ability to push the c.i.a. around to make it bend to its will on reports like this? >> no, i don't think so. and i think the characterization

of then c.i.a. director general david petraeus was particularly uncalled for in that discussion. but that's my personal opinion. i have had the honor and pleasure of knowing general petraeus and understanding his point of view on a number of occasions and feel he's affirmative, strong and permitted, and i don't feel he would permit the agency to be pushed around. i believe he was head of c.i.a. at the time these allegations were made. my own sense is that those particular documents were prided prided--were provided as the documentpresident said, but it's hard to believe this is a cover up if the white house oh provided them, but this is not part of our report, and i hasten to add that i'm not an expert on this and i'm commenting on a citizen.

>> john: i understand that your experience as a diplomat serves you well, but did senator ayyo ayyotte have a point when she said these were not a substitute to the congressional oversight. >> it was appointed through an act of congress that provided the authority on this and set out the five questions you referred to. it contains findings and recommendations which ought to be of help for congress in oversight if over sight is clearly defined of seeking information of improving legislation and preparing new legislation. certainly we were aware of that, and we supported it. senator ayotte has her own views on this, and obviously the congress on these questions subject to the constitution are master of their own fate. i wouldn't second guess them but we did provide information that we thought would be helpful to the congress.

>> john: we're about out of time but are you surprised this is being used as an attack and as a weapon against the other party? should it be? >> no, i read all the press reporting up until the time that we completed our report, it was thousands of page, i hate to to tell you. in our report we investigated every lead, every question that came up in the press. some of it was startling close to pull pull let'ser prize material in fiction. we wanted to make sure that our report was thorough enough to say that we looked at all of this, and put aside the things that didn't hold up and try to answer the things that did, and it was very clear that the political campaign then going on seemed to play a major role in what i would call the production of inventive ideas about the sins of the other side if i could phrase it that way.

>> john: a very political way to phrase it. thomas pickering thanks again for sharing your time this even. >> it's a pleasure to go here. >> john: i'm pleased to be joined by michael tomasky special correspondent with "newsweek" and the daily bees. and by richard socarides former senior adviser to president clinton and now contributor to the new yorker. we have read some of the original memos seen how the talking points were edited down to the statement ambassador rice has been hammered for making the final product result of an inter-agency squabble or cover up. >> i think the talking points

are scandal scandalous and unusual. that's what we do, we spend a lot of our time trying to decide how to describe events to the general public. so the notion that people would refine and revise the way things were described there is nothing unusual or any way out of the ordinary out of this. now, i think the real issue becomes was there a dispute between the state department and c.i.a. in which they were trying to make sure that no one side blamed the other. that may be interesting, and it may go to explaining what actually happens. it may shed light on what happened, if there was any fault, and why we weren't prepared but the whole talking points discussion is nonsense. there is nothing to it. there is no scandal. there is no cover up. the writing of talking points does not make for a cover up. >> john: i want to bring in

michael tomasky if jay carney told the white house press core there was only one revision and we find out there was a dozen does that create a scandal that is a headache for the white house? >> it might be a headache for jay carney, i don't know. i don't know exactly the content of those 12 revisions. maybe they're all in track changes and they can go back and look. maybe one coma was taken out or maybe "that" was changed to "which," but i basically agree with richard obviously. i don't think that there is a big scandal here, and i think the fact that obama today he made a very good point today when he mentioned in his press conference the testimony of his counterterrorism adviser matthew olsen who went up to the hill just three days after susan rice's infamous television appearances and said we think this is an act of terror.

now the heart of the republican case against the administration here is that they were hiding the fact that this was an act of terror for electoral reasons because of the campaign season. but here was the president going up and telling a committee of democrats and republicans that it was an act of terror. that is not hide going to you ask me. >> the heart of their accusations it keeps getting heart transplants. the president left these people to die then the testimony that they gun to forget about now and now back to the memo thing revised many times. were you surprised to hear congressman issa accuse the former c.i.a. director david petraeus of saying what the administration wanted him to say, and saying that ambassador pickering was only hearing what the administration wanted him to hear? was david petraeus a patsy for

hillary clinton. >> they're making it up as they go along. listen, to the extent that republicans insist on making this about a scandal about a cover going after hillary about going after president obama the truth is there are legitimate questions about what went wrong. americans died. there are very legitimate questions as to what the errors were but i think the republicans will lose credibility if they keep making it about this scandal and keep calling it a cover up. there are legitimate national security questions around this issue, but there is no hint of cover up or scandal. >> john: indeed, however jay carney insists there was one white house revision made to the white house talking points. given as much as those points were revised we know he's not telling the truth. is this a case of what the

meaning of is, is? did jay carney lied and if he lied should he be fired? >> i don't know if he lied. he may have had bad information. he may have gotten crossed up. i don't know, i wasn't there in the room, and i don't know the background. i just can't say for sure that he lied. i suppose if he lied that's pretty problematic but even so i think a little perspective is important here. we're talking about--we're talking about something that as richard has said, it's just not an issue that really should be rising to the level that it's rising to, it just really shouldn't be. it would be nice, it would be good if we could hold bipartisan good-faith hearings on what happened in benghazi so as to make sure that something like this you know, wouldn't happen again. you can't always prevent these things but to try and take steps to make sure that something like

this didn't happen again and both parties could agree on that and shake hands and three people have lost their jobs in the state department over this. >> john: indeed, and we can shake hands on that and be done with it, but that's not the way it's going to go. >> john: the only thing that we can be sure of is that this is going to continue, and a party who has not accomplished a lot legislatively will get their base to show up at the polls. richard and michael will be with me after the break. remormon moves. could this be great news for the tea party? that's next.

>> john: the thing of the day is today's by golly you betcha, the great state of minnesota which sent bob dylan to new york and michelle bachmann to congress will be sending gays to the altar as they become the 12th state in america oh that

allows gays to marry. well done. now, this ought to get those "don't tread on me" flags waving. a widening internal investigation that has di covered that the irs targeted tax exempt status of non-profit groups that not only had tea party or operator in their name but also ones that voiced concern about government spending debt, and taxes or constitutional education. miller however was the only named interim commissioner last november following the resignation of bush-appointee doug shulman who headed the organization during these alleged practices. >> if you've got the irs operating in anything less than a neutral nonpartisan way then

that's outrageous, and it's contrary to our traditions, and people have to be held accountable and it's got to be fixed. >> john: if you thought that benghazi was going to be around for a long time, hold on for irs gate. thank you for staying with us for this interesting day for this administration. michael, let me continue with you at this time. some conservative friends say this scandal is bigger than benghazi watergate and iran contra-combined. what are your thoughts on that. >> it's more easily understandable by members of the public. people understand how the tax system is supposed to work along these lines whereas benghazi is

pretty remote to a lot of people, and a lot of people have not gotten that interested in it yet. i think, and i really think and i certainly hope that the administration's fingerprints are going to be nowhere near this. it's just something that happened in the irs. that would be a tragedy and a calamity if that were the case. but i think this is something that the white house is not involved in. so i really will be shocked if this led way up a tree. >> john: i'm sure you're right and i'm sure we'll hear bush appointee for time to come. will this be used to chin up the tax base. >> i think they'll try to link it to the administration. they'll say the irs is part of the administration. obviously the irs is run strictly nonpartisan. the appointees go--extend between new administrations, as you said, this was a bush

appointee, but it is a disturbing story because it goes to the heart of this whole tea party hysteria, saying that everybody is after them. it will feed a lot of crazies on the right who say the government is after them, and that there is no privacy left. but the truth is that this is an area--let's be clear--i think no one has really explained what is happening here. and it was not like they were being audited on their tax returns. this is an area--there are organizations both on the left and on the right who abuse tax exempt status, and the government is trying to get more serious making sure if you get a tax exempt status you're not advocating for strictly political purpose. >> john: it's a great chance to make that case. >> they went about it completely incorrectly, inproperly. this is a disaster, and someone is going to be fired. there are a number of people who

are going to lose their jobs here because someone will have to pay for this. >> john: you think this is an area finally where conservatives and liberals could join hands and say we agree. michael, the irs has certainly taken their lumps over this, but isn't this whole scandal the symptom of citizens united, doesn't have the irs have to target some of these organizations, especially those dedevoted to rich guys hiding their money and not paying taxes like the rest of us? >> of course it does, but it has to be done in a politically adept way. if there are four groups on the right that are up to hanky panky here and there are four groups on the left up to hankie panky there is no way you're going to do that, it's just impossible there are groups on both sides that have to--that could probably be called on the

carpet and certainly these groups with the secret donors that are created by citizens united would be at the top of the list, but you have to do it in a completely even-handed way. >> cenk: richard? >> yes, and it doesn't appear that's what was happening and that's where the irs is going to get into big trouble. i'm surprised. i thought president obama was terrific today. and he said what he needed to say, but i'm surprised it took him as long as today and no one from the treasury or the administration was out in front of us. this is going to be a huge problem for them because it plays into everybody's fears with what is happening with the irs. everybody is scared of the irs to begin with, and if you're a right winger who thinks this is all about a right wing conspiracy against you, this is tailor made for that. >> john: and it benefits the groups most who are crying victory right now: michael you

wrote a piece that included the" word impeachment. do you think these groups really want biden in office. >> substantiallysubsubstantively no, it won't reach that level. they placate their base. their base already thinks that barack obama should be impeached, not for benghazi or the irs just because he wasn't born in america. >> he wasn't born here, that's exactly right. >> and the's the manchurion so and so j. >> john: well, documented. >> all they need is an impetus or rationale. this might be the impetus and rationale. pressing this as an impeachment issue will chin up the right wing base in 2014 they know that very well, and they know if they can do that, and if they can hold the house and then

capture the senate, then maybe then maybe they can move. look, a substantively no. but a high crime or demeanor as or misdemeanor as we know is whatever the house majority decides it is. >> john: which means they don't have to accomplish anything legislatively and they can get their base what they want to hear. >> and the white house is in a position where they have to be extremely careful to handle this with aplum and hit all the right notes, and i suspect there is a lot of scrambling right now to figure out what to do. but the president and his team needs to be more aggressive about this. jay carney you know, he has a very difficult job. you can't get everything right. you're up there. you're talking every da about an amazingan--you're talking every day about an amazing cross section of subject you can't get everything right all the time,

but he needs clean it up, come forward and say certainly i don't think he ought to be--he did anything that was a fire bull offense. >> john: it's going to be an interesting summer, and i'm grateful to both of you. >> it will be a tough period. >> special correspondent for "newsweek" and daily beast michael tomas ski and richard socarides, former senior adviser to president clinton, and now they don't have to come up for another three things. our wtf america series continues on alabama. now if only we could think of something funny to say about alabama. that's next. just be grateful current tv does not come in smellivision. the sweatshirt is nice and all but i could use a golden lasso. (vo) only on current tv.

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>> john: welcome back. if you've watched any cable news coverage lay lately or even saw the first half of this show, it

seems everyone is talking about the same thing benghazi, benghazi, benghazi. it's like beating juice for fox news. if you say it enough times it will appear even though fox news wouldn't be able to find it on a map. joining me now my non-expert panel. joining memanaging director and host of this week in blackness radio twib dot hmelon white. and comedian paul mecurio and dean obeidallah. carney has been caught in a lie.

>> still, is there any significance of these new revelations or does carney take the fall for it or does this administration walk through fire. >> most of the changes were coming from the state department not the white house. >> john: the state department and the c.i.a. going back and forth. >> they still told the truth but it was not the truth that they wanted. carney argued that it was more style choices whatever, but the fact is that they, in fact, did not go in there and rip everything apart like the republican want to-- >> john: but mr. carney said it was one detail about what kind of building the attack was waged on and reality it was something more involved then than thanksgiving. >> but it's still not the cover up that they want it to be. >> john: i know it's not but it

looks like he lied. >> first of all the g.o.p. are so upset about the loss of four american lives but won't lift a finger for the hundreds of americans lives that are dying every day to gun violence. maybe newtown should newtown school name should be changed. it's more to whether it was a film or al-qaeda terrorist attack, but the fact people don't like us over there. maybe we should address that. >> john: and the fact that we went to war to get rid of gadhafi, and the fact is they don't care about these four people. they are exploiting these four deaths. they had 3,000 deaths they exploited to go into iraq. >> that's what politicians do. why was lincoln shot, because it was friday or john wilkes booth

could not hack it as an actor. >> john: i'm saying the g.o.p. has no moral or intellectual or historical right to argue about this, but to say that jay carney told a lie. >> the party that hates government wants more government now to investigate president obama. this is the most political i've ever seen. the party on the left will never be open to allegations. theymitt romney came out to politicize this, and mike huckabee saying saying this is worse than watergate and then to say if we lose control of the house and don't get the senate back-- >> john: in fairness-- >> it's the worse, it's politics. >> john: mike huckabee is trying to take rush limbaugh down. and the president said this morning the talking points are just a side show and there couldn't have been a cover up since she released all the

the--since they released all the information three days later. absolutely interest. what exactly does the right argue is being covered up. >> that's a really good point. the democrats are terrible at covering things up and the republicans are great. democrats should introduce republicans to women and the republicans to crime. >> john: and they could not even get it addressed right. >> it was a three-day cover up. there is no cover up. >> john: president obama said it was an act of terror. if they're not smart enough to equate act of terror to terror terrorism. >> john: and the right said the word terrorism the next day and susan rice said extremist what is being covered up in the eyes of the republican friends. >> that's not the point. to sit and talk about with what's the cover up, that's not the point. the point is what can they do to

get obama over hot water. >> john: what is can they do oh to get a dispirited base, this is the lowest rated congress in american history. the republicans are dejected. now they don't need inside. they don't need a jobs plan. they can't peel obama-care a million times. >> and they're energizing obama's base. >> john: if they try to impeach him they will be but right now they're energizing their own base. >> look, obama is chris brown to the democrats. he slaps us around on race issues. he doesn't get what he wants. >> john: chris brown is the liberals. >> i'm offended. don't ever call obama chris brown. that's a terrible metaphor. >> i think it's completely accurate. >> it's a bit strong there but at the same time here no, this whole thing is--the--what's going to be the end of it is that they get to walk out and

say, listen, we got him. we're holding him. >> john: no, we got her because it's really about talking hillary clinton. >> you're absolutely right. the midterm elections are really important. the democrats take control of the house they cannot lose the house. >> john: they don't care if they have to get moderates or independents to jump on the benghazi train they're going to all come and vote together. it will work. we'll see if the democrats fight back. the panel stays with me after the break where we dare the irs and the tea party to come after us. stick around, we'll be right back.

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>> john: welcome back to "viewpoint." on social immediate at a i asked all y'all what you thought was more exploitable for republicans, benghazi or the irs scandal. on the activity, this was tweeted. clearly benghazi, the irs scandal requires yelling the tax code. the benghazi requires yelling benghazi. you might bored. it can easily yelled by jerry lewis. if you have a comment for the very tweet us or post it on our facebook page. there is a difference between mocking the tragedy of benghazi and scorn be the hip accuracy of benghazi. i'm back with my panel elon james white paul mecurio and dean obeidallah.

clearly by targeting tea party organizations, the irs has deeply violated the trust of the american people, but is there any connection here to the obama administration, or will this be just another attempt to score political points. >> we don't know if there is going to be a connection to the obama administration. there could be a connection. i'm hoping there is not. i hope it's not a richard nixon time event where he uses the irs and other apparatus to go after his enemies. i hope that is not true. >> i don't think it's true. >> this is such a gift to the right, after being pursued. >> just when benghazi was running out of steam there is something to throw in the fire. i believe they did this the wrong way. the whole--it's like a dumb crime. the irs stands for "i'm really stupid," the idea is we're going to look at these non-profits are truly non-profits.

if you're going to go oh through the trouble of possiblyify aggravating the laws get something out of it. >> john: they should have gone after liberal groups as well. >> they definitely should have gone after liberal groups as well. it's two-fold here. one, the republicans are not held at gunpoint. that's the way they talk. the fact is, the problem was that a 501 c 4 doesn't have to pay taxes but that is not the--you would think that everyone of the guns people went into people's house, stole their guns and killed their babies. that did not happen. but when you look at, cool, let's look at the--when you look at what the situation actually is here there was an issue there was a surge in 501 c 4 paperwork coming in, cool. they were looking at that. the issue was when they decided how to look at that thing when they simply used "tea party" and "patriot" when doing the

searches. but the issue was a real issue that was being looked at. i believe that. >> john: it was. >> and that it is something that should be noted in this situation. it was not a witch-hunt. there was a problem. these people simply don't want to pay taxes. they go and they file all of these super surges, i want to start a non-profit, and i'm told flat out it could be a year, year and a half. >> john: but they open themselves up to such harsh-- >> this should be the issue where conservatives and liberals join hands and say no one should be targeted unfairly. mitt romney bought your nomination. >> the irs i'm so mad at them making the tea party sympathetic. >> john: and it worked. so is this what president obama's second term going to be all about fending off attacks and not getting anything done. >> i think he could be rained on

as president. there were pundits writing about that. if you measure a president's power in his ability to get through legislation it will all be stopped. >> john: and the more we hear about benghazi and the irs the less we'll hear about gun control and sequestration and immigration, and the lowers the chance of anything happening for the country's betterment in the next few years. >> yes obama will have to shame folks and play politician as we all know that obama doesn't like to do. but he'll have to play the politician role to slip things down the cracks. there is no sitting down to have a conversation about this. it's about what can i hold over your head, and i believe immigration is the strongest one. that could be used to hammer them. >> john: and the g.o.p. needs it, i do want to say that i support impeaching any president

who made douglas schulman head of irs. it was president bush who appointed the man. some folks are saying that the g.o.p. will use this and it can hurt the president but there is another scandal going on right now closer to home involving mayor bloomberg. i want to get to this because a year ago this week we were embroiled in the controversy over news corp and what mourdock may have been doing. now the other story is how mayor bloomberg had this technology that seems to have been useed to spy on other people, boulevardberg's lp terminal were used by bloomberg journalists to gather information about wall street banks and monitor geithner. do we forget that everything we do is being monitored by someone who can't see us. >> what's happening here if you look at the larger picture

these reporters are looking into major financial organizations which are known through history for corruption and they found nothing. if you're going to spend time noodling around, it's like if you have cameras in a massage parlor, go in and find something. >> i don't care if you monitor me just follow me on twitter. if you follow me on twitter, you can monitor me. nothing online is secret. and if you're delusional that no one will see it one day and it will be used in a trial against you or prosecution against you one day, you're foolish. as a former lawyer i've seen it. >> of course, we--no one who is technologically savvy realizes there is a footprint. but at the same time you expect a certain amount of respect and privacy. i believe that's what is coming down here. of course, you could go look at

these things, but you're supposed to be--i'm supposed to trust you. if i can't trust you why am i using your terminal? why am we paying you if that information can be used against you had. >> in the rupert measure rupert murdoch, it was so evil that it got people to feel sorry. only one man has all the answers for syria. it's a certain senator who has been right for the past ten years. the guy with a simple plan to simply save syria coming up next.

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>> john: welcome back to "viewpoint." one last equal question for the panel. which application has disappointed you the most in the last decade, elon james white? >> i'm going to have to go with bloomberg. i was with bloomberg until he decided he was going to become king and become mayor again. >> paul mecurio. >> anthony wiener. he throws his life away, and he never had had actual sex. >> john: think how long it will be before he gets one.

>> well, the civil war in syria is a low point for the human race. america has seldom found herself in a more confusing foreign policy position. nobody wants to a more american troops to die in the mideast quagmire and nobody can agree on the morally responsible course of the action we can bring in air power but that runs the risk of russia bushing back. we have a long and evil history of getting in bed with the wrong people. america is like the cast of girls with its own flag. it's a bloody mess in syria and no one is find an easy solution except for one man. it's a little known fact but senator john mccain owns a sophisticated jet pack which he uses to travel from network news

morning shows to morning show every sunday morning. and this weekend the man who decided your national economy saying how easy it would be if we gave war a chance. >> the russians have said they would move in. >> if they moved in, it would make it more complicated, and certainly gives us skepticism about a conference, but we provide with a safe zone. we can give them a place to organize inside syria and give them the heavy weapons they need. >> besides what is the worst that could happen? an u.s. pilot gets shot down over enemy territory, who knows how preposterous that idea is more than john mccain. but then it came to very similar matter of arming the muslim resistence while advod armying the muslims who are little "a" little too muslim-y for men tastes. >> who is them? >> i know them.

i've met them. they are he's there. >> but how do you pick out good rebels and bad rebels. you've got al-qaeda rebels running around. >> marchmartha that's a legitimate questions you're asking. they're there. they're not afraid to die. >> john: if you're just waking from a coma that was john mccain explaining that jihadists are just so good at waging jihad because we've given them so much practice to wage jihad against us, so we shouldn't be afraid to go against them he john mccain has one solution, draft john mccain. he is an one man seal team six or keating 5 which makes him an one man seal keating 11. if you believe dropping more bombs on mid eastern heads can

be it, then you know this is the time to draft mccain. it takes a warmonger to guarantee all the safety of u.s. civil troops and mccain is such a bad ass he has a new action movie coming out "fast and furious 7 the turn signal never stops." what is important, he is the only man who can solve this and we know it because the morning news shows keep letting him tell us week after week after week after week. so send him "n" mccain, and lindsey graham will bravely volunteer to be his police one. that's "viewpoint" for tonight. i want to thank my panel. elo james white and a paul mecurio, and dean obeidallah. have a great evening good night, mom.

>> joy: tonight barbara walters made her big announce amount that she is retiring. i have my own big announcement. there are mice in this building. who said al gore left us with nothing. and i'll sit down with two people from the hit bravo show "newlyweds." i think i hear them fighting in the green room now. all of that and much more next. [♪ theme music ♪] >> joy: like a lot